Improvement in devices for unpacking and separating dried fruits



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DEVICE FORUNPACKING AND SEPARATING DRIED FRUITS. No.17Z,Z78. PatentedJan.18, 1876.

nllllllli N-PETERS. PHOTOUTRDGRIPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES HENRY F. PATTON, OF APPLETON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HISALBERT S. DEAN, OF EAU OLAIRE,.WISCONSIN.

PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR UNPACKING AND SEPARATING DRIED FRUITS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,278, dated January18, 1876; application filed I December 22, I875.

To to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. PATTON, of Appleton, Outagamie county,State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful 1mprovement inDevices for Removing Dried Fruit from Barrels, &o., of which thefollowing is a full description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a detail.

It is customary to pack dried apples and other fruits in barrels andother packages under pressure, and it is difiicult to remove the fruitin small quantities, as it is necessary for the retailer to do.

The object of this invention is to make a device by the use of which tofacilitate the re-- moval of such fruits and other similar articles,which I accomplish by prom'ding a bar or rod with a bracket, to which ispivoted a claw having a handle, by means of which to operate such claw,as more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, a represents a bar or rod, pointed at its lower end,and provided with any suitable handle, b, at its upper end. cisabracket, permanently secured to a near its lower end. d is a claw havingtwo prongs, as shown, pivoted to the bracket 0 at e. f is a handleattached to the ,claw d.. The parts are so arranged that they can occupythe po- -m ade of metal.

sition shown in Fig. 1, the points of the claw being a little above thepoint of the bar or rod to.

In use the parts are to be placed in the position shown in Fig. 1, andthe point of a is to be forced down into the fruitpreferably at the sideof the package. Then, by lifting up on the handle f, the claw will bedrawn through the fruit, and brought into the position shown by dottedlines, loosening the fruit in its passage, which operation can berepeated as often as may be necessary.

The bar a, the bracket, and claw-'should be The handle f may be eitherof metal or wood.

For ordinary purposes a may be about two feet long; the bracket aboutfive inches from the bar a at the point e, and the claw, with itshandle, about eighteen inches long.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The claw 01, provided with a haudle,f, in combination with the bar orrod (0 and bracket a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY F. PATTON.

Witnesses:

ALBERT S. DEAN, I J. E. HARRISON.

RIGHT TO

